Chap. 378.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 660 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, in relation to the duties of school board as to school laws and rules
and regulations; employment of teachers; restrictions; penalties. [S B 51]

Approved March 31, 1938

I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion six hundred and sixty of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 660. Duties of School Board as to School Laws and
Rules and Regulations; Employment of Teachers; Restriction; Penal-
ties.—It shall be the duty of the school board to see that the school
laws are properly explained, enforced and observed; to make local
regulations for the conduct of the schools and for the proper dis-
cipline of the student, which shall include their conduct going to and
returning from school, but such local rules and regulations shall be
in harmony with the general rules of the State Board of Education
and the statutes of this State. The school board on recommendation
of the division superintendent shall employ teachers and place them
in appropriate schools and shall dismiss teachers when delinquent,
inefficient, or otherwise unworthy. The division superintendent shall
have authority to assign to their respective positions all teachers and
principals employed by the board, and reassign them, provide no change
or reassignment shall affect the salary of such teachers; and provided,
further, that he shall make appropriate reports and explanations on
the request of the board. No teacher shall be employed or paid from
the public funds unless such teacher holds a certificate in full force
in accordance with the rules of certification laid down by the State
Board of Education, and, provided, further, that it shall not be lawful
for the school board of any county, city or of any town constituting a
separate school district to employ or pay any teacher or other school
board employee, from the public funds if said teacher or other em-
ployee is the father, mother, brother, sister, wife, son, daughter, son-
in-law, or daughter-in-law, sister-in-law or brother-in-law of the
superintendent, or of any member of the school board, provided, how-
ever, that this provision shall not apply to any such relative employed
by any school board at any time prior to the effective date of this act.
If the school board violates these provisions, the individual members
thereof shall be personally liable to refund to the local treasury any
amounts paid in violation of this law, and such funds shall be recovered
from members by action or suit in the name of the Commonwealth
at the relation of the attorney for the Commonwealth; such funds
when recovered, to be paid into the local treasury for the use of the
public school.